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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austro-German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902.
The three-part cycle of poems titled Das Stunden-Buch, known in English as The Book of Hours, was written by Rainer Maria Rilke between 1899 and 1903 and was published in 1905.1